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PrintChina Girls' Mathematical Olympiad
China counting and probability
Problem
Let and be positive integers with . Set , and is a subset of such that every element in is divisible by at most one element in . Prove that
Solution
For every with , we define set There are elements in . Since every element in is not divisible by any two distinct elements in , it follows that for . Thus Note that . It follows that So the desired result is obtained.
Techniques
Counting two waysDivisibility / FactorizationFloors and ceilings